Diary of Maude Elizabeth Edmondson - 8 January 1940 - 27 June 1942 - Part 7

(M^rs J.W.)
Mr. E. Edmondson
"Forest Home"
Hume Highway
Liverpool - N.S.W
If thou art borrowed by a friend.
Right welcome shall he be
To rad and study, not to lend.
But to return to me;
Not that imparted knowledge doth
Diminish learnings store.
But books, I find, by borrowers lent
Return to me no more.
 — Sir Walter Scott —
 — Bits and Pieces  —
"We have gathered posies from other
mens flowers.
Nothing but the thread that binds
them is ours".

Final leave of 7^th Div
5^th October - back to
Bathurst Camp.
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J.H.E. birthday on 8^th Oct.
Sent him a huge very rich
cake B.C. Fifty posted it for
the 6 October. Had it all
for a party among the lads.
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7^th Div. embarked Saturday
Forenoon 19^th 1940.
Sgt (Police) Turnbull & Cons'
Ted Little went to the wharf
hoping to see them go on.
Just saw Kevin Turnbull only.
(later accidently Killed New Guinea)
Our crowd was on Queen Mary. also the
Aquitania went out together

They went out 11 ^AM during
the morning Church Service
on 20^th October (Sunday)
1940.
His Excellency Lord
Gowrie followed them as
far as the heads.
Lady Gowrie told me the
Ships were there when she
went to Church Service.
but when she came out
of the Service they were
gone.
They were joined by very
many ships outside the heads

6 Div marched out of the
Ingleburn Camp to the
Ingleburn Railway Sta'
early morning
MON 8^th Jan 1940 First troops train
TUES 9^th Jan      "    Second Troop  "
Wednes' 10 Jan  "    Third troop Train
Ships
Empress of Britain
      "            "  Japan
Themistocles
Orion
Narkunda
Orontes
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Sailed from Sydney 4 P.M.
10^th Jan 1940 

A great number of troop
trains passed through
Liverpool on Saturday morn'
May 4^th 1940.
I seen Navy & Mauritania
sailed out of the harbour
on early tide on Sunday
May 5^th /40
Many S' AUS & riders from
Ingleburn